MPSE-003 WESTERN POLITICAL THOUGHT (FROM PLATO TO MARX) In English Solved Assignment 2024-2025

MPSE-003 WESTERN POLITICAL THOUGHT (FROM PLATO TO MARX) Solved Assignment 2024-2025

Tutor Marked Assignment
Course Code: MPSE-003
Assignment Code: ASST/TMA/2024-25
Marks: 100

SECTION –I
1. How is Political thought distinguished from political theory and political philosophy?
Explain.
2. Discuss St. Thomas Aquina’s understanding of the relationship between the Church and
the State.
3. Comment on the following statement of J.S. Mill: “It is better to be Socrates dissatisfied
than a fool satisfied.”
4. What has been St. Augustine’s influence on western political thought? Examine.
5. Elaborate upon Machiavelli’s classification of governments.
SECTION –II
Write a short note on each part of the following questions in about 250 words.
6. a) Thomas Hobbes on the rights and duties of sovereign
b) Bentham’s political philosophy
7. a) J.S. Mill on Representative Government
b) Edmund Burke’s views on Religion and Toleration
8. a) Immanuel Kant’s transcendental–idealist view of human nature
b) Alexis de Tocqueville on religion
9. a) Plato’s methodology
b) Hegel’s theory of state
10. a) Marx’s Historical Materialism
b) John Locke on social contract and civil society

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